The unbelievable colonial origin of the Middle East
How the British Empire turned Africans into Arabs
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Alkebulanians,
Let me ask you a question.
If you went back just 200 years ago and asked people in Egypt, Sudan, and Arabia what continent they were part of… do you think they’d say “the Middle East”?
No.
They’d tell you they were in Africa.
This is one of the more surprising things I’ve learned about African history.
Africa and what is now known as the Middle East were one landmass, one cultural zone, one people. It was all Africa. So what exactly happened?
Read on, this is a good one.
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